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GATE. No. 318,355. Patented May 19, 1885.

WITNESSES r i INVENTORS AT RNEYS UNITED STATES PATE'ZNT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. OOFFIN AND THOMAS FERGUSON, OF PARKERSBURG, IOWA.

GATE.

SPECIFLCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,355, dated May 19,1885.

Application filed August 22, 1884.

To all ZU7L0772/ it may concern.-

Be itknown that we, OHARLnsA. COFFIN and THOMAS FERGUSON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Parkersburg, in the county of Butler andState of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGates; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it apper-tains tomake and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a front view of the gate. Fig. 2 is a detailview.

This invention has relation to gates; and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement of devices, as hereinafter set forth,and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the main frameorbody of the gate, consisting of a length of gas-pipe having its middleportion, B, extending obliquely and its end portions respectively bentupward and downward from said middle portion to form the end bars of thegate, the oblique middle portion forming the brace-bar. In theconstruction illustrated the hinge-bar O is rep resented as having itsfree end upward; but this construction may be reversed, if desired, thehinge-bar being bent downward. In such a case the obliquity of thebrace-bar will be reversed. The construction illustrated is, however,preferred. In bending the pipe the end portions are not at first bent tothe exact position which they are designed to maintain when the gate iscompleted. These bars are left in the bending a little inclined outward,as shown, so that when the transverse wires E are applied connecting thebars 0 and D, and are strained tightly, these end bars will be drawn upto their proper vertical position,

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and will then have an amount of outward tension or spring sufficient tokeep the wires straight and firm. The wires are usually double-strandbarbwires. Thesearearranged parallel to each other at intervals fromthetop to the bottom of the gate, and are secured to the end bars,0 and D.In the construction illustrated notches g are made in said end bars atthe proper points for the passage of the wires, which are passed oversaid notches. The strands are then brought around the outside of thebar, and, finally, said strands are twisted around the main wire,forming a secure fastening.

Before the wires are put on, the eyebolt-s or hinge-connections H areslipped on the hingebar. These bolts, having been passed throughperforations in the gate-post K, may be secured by nuts. The eyes ofthese bolts should fit the pipe closely; otherwise collars should besecured on the pipe to form bearings for said eyes.

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

1. A gate consisting of gas-pipe bent to form the end bars and theoblique brace-bar, and the transverse wires passed over notches in saidend bars, bent around the outside of the bars and secured by twisting onthe main wires, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a length of bent gas-pipe having spring endsCD, of the transverse barb-wires strained by said ends, and the eyeboltsor hinge-connections, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

CHAS. A. COFFIN. THOMAS FERGUSON. Witnesses: Y

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